[pcductape] Re: 20's

From: "trapper" <trapper@xxxxxxx>

To: <pcductape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:55:05 -0900

ok..
Well I was referencing Bob as the " quoted printable being at fault...Now I
will probably hear from him for mis-quoting him..ha!
No I could care less who changed what as long as it wasn't me..!
No I was saying it happens in both new email and replies...with or without the
quoted printable thing..
It is simply one charset that isn't totally compatible with another charset
(think of them as languages), and the =20's and =96's and so forth are the
result of the incompatibility. that is what I was saying in my last
reply..Someone's email software can't read html.
well it is only maddening when we think we got it solved and there it is again.
I don't like dealing in problems where I can only try to ask intelligent
questions. Try to sound reasonable when in fact I don't have any more clue than
the next guy..Rather have answers than more questions..
Well if your not going to worry about it I am not...Got more important things
to get an ulcer over..ha!
But I tell you what it is always going to be on the back of my mind now until I
get a answer from somewhere...!
I just wished someone could say " this is the problem" and voila...all gone
:-).
So far were all speculating and in all my years on the computer I have never
ever once run into a problem that someone could not fix or have the answer
for..Never..till now! We all got our ideas and opinions on it, but no absolutes
yet..
that is the maddening part for me..!
" + "
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Diane
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----- Original Message -----
From: Pam
To: pcductape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:32 PM
Subject: [pcductape] Re: 20's
I can't say if the Quoted Printable option is part fo the fault here. I was
only referring to Bob's statement on what the equal sign was for.
The problem occurred when someone somewhere changed something. You are right,
we all didn't change something, but one of the
servers/routers/bridges/software, etc that our messages pass through did
change. No possible way to find out who changed what, and truth is.... do you
really care who changed what?
As for your wondering why it only happens in a new email and not in a reply, I
thought I saw it happening in both.
You mentioned it is intermittent, on again off again, I am only surmising here,
and I don't know the proper terminology on this so bear with me, but I know
there are servers used when the mail load is high. I picture them akin to an
overflow catcher. Perhaps that would explain the intermittent behavior. You
notice that they come in short spurts and then gone again, like when the
overflow server is taking up the slack.
As for solving the problem.... it can't be solved. It is simply one charset
that isn't totally compatible with another charset (think of them as
languages), and the =20's and =96's and so forth are the result of the
incompatibility.
It obviously bothers you more than it bothers anyone else on the list. To me
it isn't "maddening". It's just part of the territory that comes with working
with different platforms.
Hope that helps.
Pam
-----Original Message-----
From: pcductape-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pcductape-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of trapper
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 6:55 PM
To: Pc-Ductape
Subject: [pcductape] 20's
ok let me back up and take another approach to this subject..
Lets assume your right Pam and that Bob is too.
it is this quoted printable thing causing the 20's...and it is absence or
presence of a blank..( not sure which it is ).
my question then is where and why did it all of a sudden appear...?
came out of no where...Did we all make changes or something on one day in
particular?
My setting s have been the exact same since day 1..never changed a thing..all
of a sudden there are 20's showing up..Why.. ? I have always been set to the
"quoted printable" option from day one...
How is it that no matter what my settings are changed too I still see the
20's and now I myself produce them, but only from time to time..
I can set to base64, or none and still get them. makes no dif. what those
settings are..the 20's still come?? Not all the time..that is what is so
maddening about this..its a intermittent problem..
How is it that they are produced from scratch and not just in a reply?? I
have sent out msgs asking if there were 20's showing up and you answered yes
back. The original message asking was not in a reply but from an original?
something just isn't adding up..it's a on again off again problem..
It seems to me if it were based on any one thing wouldn't it always be there
if you still used the same old thing and did not change out of what was causing
the problem in the first place..?
Why would the " quoted printable " cause the error one time and not the next?
You got anyone there at school Pam that can shed some light on this??
I don;t find it good enough at this time to just say " it is because of this
or that " Why..because it is not logical in its conclusion and just about the
time you think you have it solved it pops up again..
" + "
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